The Thebaid
Subtitle: Seven against Thebes (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
Contributors: Charles Stanley Ross (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780801869082
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Polyneices (Greek mythology); Classics; Poetry; Translations into English; Seven against Thebes (Greek my; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Epic poetry, Latin; Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)
First sentence: Invocation. Oedipus curses his sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and invokes the fury Tisiphone, who brings civil unrest to Thebes.